New top mandarin’s issues stark warning to Whitehall on first day in the job Sir Chris Wormald, the new cabinet secretary, has delivered a warning to civil servants.
The new cabinet secretary Sir Chris Wormald has delivered a stark pre-Christmas warning on his first day in the job as Britain’s top civil servant.
Sir Chris told civil servants in an email: “As cabinet secretary, it is my role to support the Prime Minister and Government to deliver for the country.
In a message to all civil servants across Whitehall, Sir Chris has echoed the comments from the prime minister that they must stop being a block to progress with an instruction “we must do things differently”.
Sir Chris, who was a surprise appointment having previously served as the permanent secretary to the Depaertment for Health, has pledged to go through with Sir Keir Starmer’s ambition to “re-wiring of the way the government works”.
